Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Negotiations of National Identity. 338 pages, black & white illustrations. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 31. Weight: 680.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9781843842880
- ISBN
- 9781843842880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.92
€ 150.92
Hardcover. Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world. Num Pages: 342 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504387
- ISBN
- 9780674504387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.33
€ 47.99
€ 40.33
Paperback. Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations facsim., genealogy, port. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JMAL; MBP; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 213 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684831831
- ISBN
- 9780684831831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.30
€ 16.99
€ 12.30
Hardback. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 158 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857284433
- ISBN
- 9780857284433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.27
€ 138.27
Num Pages: 315 pages. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810825611
- ISBN
- 9780810825611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.77
€ 112.77
Hardback. Num Pages: 191 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810825635
- ISBN
- 9780810825635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.79
€ 105.79
Paperback. An exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to homoerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early English texts. This book takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Durham
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325994
- ISBN
- 9780822325994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.27
€ 36.99
€ 34.27
Hardcover. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557530561
- ISBN
- 9781557530561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.77
€ 44.77
Hardcover. Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility explores the interplay between the known and the unknown from two perspectives-landscape and journey-in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611475234
- ISBN
- 9781611475234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.95
€ 127.95
Hardback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271064871
- ISBN
- 9780271064871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.68€ 67.21
€ 79.68
€ 67.21
Hardcover. Assesses the dramaturgy and political significance of one of our most radical contemporary playwrights Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472105878
- ISBN
- 9780472105878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.18
€ 99.18
Hardback. Provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with chapters the sound stratum of poetry; the units-of-meaning stratum; the world stratum; regulative concepts; and the poetry of orientation and disorientation. This book consists of samples from the author's study of the rhythmical performance of poetry and the expressiveness of speech sounds. Num Pages: 683 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 169 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1142.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 683
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Second Edition, Second expanded edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192556
- ISBN
- 9781845192556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.14
€ 130.14
Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 243
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816610372
- ISBN
- 9780816610372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.14
€ 26.99
€ 25.14
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638720
- ISBN
- 9780691638720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.76
€ 134.76
Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164412
- ISBN
- 9780231164412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.67
€ 36.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164405
- ISBN
- 9780231164405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.88€ 82.43
€ 107.88
€ 82.43
Paperback. Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from premodern China. With Hanan's introduction and notes, and containing Li Yu's emphasis marks, notes, and critiques, this volume will interest students of Chinese literature and general readers alike. Translator(s): Hanan, Patrick. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DNF; DSBD; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113854
- ISBN
- 9780231113854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.17
€ 40.17
Hardback. Provides an overview of and introduction to the Towneley cycle of plays, a 32-play cycle written in c 1500, which begins with the fall of Lucifer and ends with the Last Judgement, and was performed as part of the festival of Corpus Christi in Wakefield. This volume examines the cycle's textual history, and discusses issues of language and style. Series: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 226 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780708320488
- ISBN
- 9780708320488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.27
€ 22.27
Hardcover. Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction-2012 Indie Choice Awards Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011 An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him-until he was saved by writing. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393064667
- ISBN
- 9780393064667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.55
€ 26.99
€ 26.55
Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947020
- ISBN
- 9781933947020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.58
€ 140.58